Cohort 1

3F Waste Recovery

is using a by-product first approach that transforms local fish, farm, forest wastes into globally demanded natural ingredients

Blue Lion Labs

Blue Lion Labs is developing a system to automatically identity and count different types of algae in your water through the power of Artificial Intelligence and unique data collection. Through revolutionary technology built based on established research at the University of Waterloo, Blue Lion Labs aims to change the way we protect our water globally forever.

Received funding from Boost to advance MVP development

Glas Ocean Electric

Glas Ocean Electric (GOE) is bringing clean energy to coastal communities through the integration of electric boats with community energy systems. By combining electrification and onboard dynamic energy storage, electric boats present an opportunity to introduce more renewable energy to electrical grids and the communities they serve.

In Nature Robotics

In Nature Robotics Ltd. makes autonomous airboats for measuring and surveying water with lots of vegetation. Their boats go places where other boats get stuck.

Kavacha

Kavacha uses fish waste to provide active protection to marine industries through direct-to-metal coatings in harsh environments. Their solution saves users more than 30% on material and labour, while increasing or maintaining asset lifetime, reducing toxin exposure/imprint, and providing a high-volume value add for a fishery waste stream.

Mabel Systems

Mabel provides an automated inventory tracking solution for the food processing industry. We designed our solution with the operators in mind. Our computer vision technology actually makes the job of receiving, grading and packing products easier.

Marecomms Inc.

Marecomms Inc. is developing robust and broadband underwater wireless communication systems that enables wireless image transmission with unprecedented reliability in the harshest ocean conditions.

qualiTEAS

qualiTEAS is a corrosion inspection and management company. Our vibrant material research team has expertise ranging from material science to programming. Our proactive chemical approach towards corrosion inspection identifies the specific type and degree of corrosion. Our services also include additional environmental analysis (chemical and microbial analysis of soil and water), which provides information on the origin and further impacts of (due to) any ongoing corrosion issue.

Received funding from Boost to hire a business development subcontractor to identify and initiate conversations with potential customers in the Canadian market

Rapid Subsea Inc.

SeaChange Biochemistry

SeaChange Biochemistry creates chemicals for industry from sustainably harvested seaweed through an innovative biorefinery process.

SeaHawk Robotics

SeaHawk Robotics develops and operates multi-domain UAV-based ocean observation systems that disrupt current paradigms by improving access, increase safety, and reducing costs of data collection.

Subait Inc.

Subait Inc. takes a scientific approach to develop a superior sustainable lobster bait substitute based on seafood co-products, replacing environmentally challenging commercial bait fish species.

Goldfish Inc.

Goldfish Inc. (formerly Virgil Group LLC) is developing All-in-one Legal Fisheries Analysis (ALFA) software that goes beyond traceability to tackle an essential question in responsible seafood.

WeavAir

WeavAir provides an end-to-end hardware and software solution for vessel emission monitoring by using predictive algorithms that promote regulation compliance and operation costs savings for ship owners, ship managers and port operation team.